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Image data generating apparatus, method and program

a technology of image data and generating apparatus, applied in the direction of television systems, instruments, color signal processing circuits, etc., can solve the problems of reducing the original data transfer rate of expensive editing systems for professional use, affecting the quality of images, so as to achieve the effect of avoiding the reduction of optical efficiency, reducing spatial resolution, and high temporal resolution

Active Publication Date: 2010-08-05
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORP OF AMERICA
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[0030]An apparatus according to the present invention separates incoming light that has come from a subject into a number of wavelength ranges, receives a portion of the split light that falls within a wavelength range with the highest luminosity factor, thereby getting a first image, receives the rest of the light that falls within the remaining wavelength ranges, other than the one with the highest luminosity factor, thereby getting a second image that has a lower spatial resolution, and a higher temporal resolution, than the first image, and converts the temporal resolution of the first image into that of the second image using the first and second images. By separating the light that has come from a subject and receiving those split light beams in this manner, the decrease in optical efficiency can be avoided. In addition, by increasing the temporal resolution of the first image using the second image, image data with high spatial resolution and high temporal resolution can be obtained.
[0031]According to the present invention, high-spatial-resolution, high-temporal-resolution image data of a huge size can be acquired at more than the data transfer rate of imaging sensors while using a three-panel color camera. As a result, a quality image with a higher resolution can be obtained without sacrificing the portability or price competitiveness.

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However, if the user wants to shoot the scene before him or her as finely as possible, he or she often opts for the highest possible spatial and temporal resolutions, thus making the data size of the picture huge.
However, with that high data transfer rate, the load on a normal consumer camcorder or digital camera would be too heavy to handle.
And only expensive editing systems for professional use will operate at the original data transfer rate.

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[0080]FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a shooting, recording and playback system 100 as a first specific preferred embodiment of the present invention.

[0081]The shooting, recording and playback system 100 receives incoming light 101, stores an image shot, and then subjects the image shot to be reproduced to resolution raising processing, thereby outputting RGB images with high spatial resolution and high temporal resolution (ROUT GOUT BOUT) 102. The shooting, recording and playback system 100 captures and stores a first image with high spatial resolution and low temporal resolution in a wavelength range with the highest luminosity factor (i.e., the green (G) wavelength range) and a second image with low spatial resolution and high temporal resolution in the other wavelength ranges (i.e., the red (R) and blue (B) wavelength ranges), respectively. Then, the system 100 converts the temporal resolution of the first image into that of the second image in accordance with the corresp...

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[0131]A second specific preferred embodiment of the present invention to be described below is a shooting, recording and playback system that shoots and records a first image with high spatial resolution and low temporal resolution in the G wavelength range with the highest luminosity factor and a second image with low spatial resolution and high temporal resolution in the other R and B wavelength ranges, respectively, converts the temporal resolution of the first image into that of the second image in accordance with the correspondence between the low- and high-spatial-resolution images and plays the image with the converted temporal resolution. The system can synthesize together a number of images with high spatial resolution and high temporal resolution in a luminance / color difference space, thus generating an image of quality with their color balance maintained.

[0132]FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration for a shooting, recording and playback system 200 as a se...

embodiment 3

[0137]A third specific preferred embodiment of the present invention to be described below is a shooting, recording and playback system that shoots and records a first image with high spatial resolution and low temporal resolution in the G wavelength range with the highest luminosity factor and a second image with low spatial resolution and high temporal resolution in the other R and B wavelength ranges, respectively, converts the temporal resolution of the first image into that of the second image in accordance with the correspondence between the low- and high-spatial-resolution images and plays the image with the converted temporal resolution. The system can synthesize together a number of images with high spatial resolution and high temporal resolution in a luminance / color difference space, thus generating an image of quality with their color balance maintained. By making a number of pixels share the same color difference component, luminance / color difference images with high spa...

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Abstract

The shooting, recording and playback system 100 of the present invention receives incoming light 101, stores an image shot, and then subjects the image shot to be reproduced to resolution raising processing, thereby outputting RGB images with high spatial resolution and high temporal resolution (ROUT GOUT BOUT) 102. The system 100 includes a shooting section 103, a color separating section 104, an R imaging sensor section 105, a G imaging sensor section 106, a B imaging sensor section 107, an image shot storage section 108, an image shot writing section 109, a memory section 110, an image shot reading section 111, a spatial resolution upconverter section 112, a temporal resolution upconverter section 113, an output section 114, and a line recognition signal generating section 185. The system can get image data with high spatial resolution and high temporal resolution without getting the camera configuration complicated and without decreasing the optical efficiency.

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[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12 / 600,376 submitted Nov. 16, 2009, which is a §371(c) of International Application No. PCT / JP2008 / 001171, filed May 9, 2008, and also claims priority to Japanese Application No. 2007-203539 filed on Aug. 3, 2007, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for capturing a high-resolution image at a high frame rate, an apparatus and method for capturing, recording and playing such an image at a high frame rate, and a program for capturing and recording such an image at such a rate.BACKGROUND ART[0003]Recently, a digital camcorder or digital still camera has come to have an imager, including photosensing elements at tremendously high densities, and have had their definitions increased by leaps and bounds. Generally speaking, the higher the resolution of an image captured, the more finely the user can record...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04N5/228H04N5/232H04N5/335H04N9/04H04N9/09
CPCH04N5/2258H04N5/23232H04N9/097H04N9/09H04N9/045H04N9/64H04N23/45H04N23/951H04N23/16H04N23/13
Inventor MOTOMURA, HIDETOAZUMA, TAKEONOBORI, KUNIOIMAGAWA, TARO
Owner PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORP OF AMERICA
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